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Yes, it is definitely easier to remember hundreds of three word phrases. If you know the lyrics to stairway to heaven, you can remember a little under 1000 uniq
by jjk166 5y ago
Yes, it is definitely easier to remember hundreds of three word phrases. If you know the lyrics to stairway to heaven, you can remember a little under 1000 unique three word phrases. How many song lyrics, movie quotes, pieces of trivia, names, etc can you recall? The human mind is well optimized for compressing and storing phrases composed of words, as opposed to random alphanumeric sequences.
- kazinator 5y agoRandomly chosen three word combinations are not "phrases" in the linguistic sense, though they certainly are "pass phrases". I think we are sliding into equivocation over multiple meanings of the word "phrase". There is a difficulty there that should be acknowledged.